I have two column radiators that take longer than standard ones to heat up plus are not producing enough heat for the size of the room, I'm limited with space so can only fit 600 x 1000 K2 rads, the output is 8020 BTU @ DELTA T60, the column rads output is 7093 BTU @ DELTA T65, Is this much of a difference and worth doing ? Thanks.
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Column to normal radiators
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The trouble is that they are column rads, do not confuse their output in real terms of being able to heat the space.
Columns/tubular rads are terrible at heating med/larger sized rooms without using more than one where one convecting rad would traditionally do the job. You need to perform some heat loss calculations, work out what the space you are trying to heat requires in the way of heat (Kw) and work from there.
Columns/tubular rads are terrible at heating med/larger sized rooms without using more than one where one convecting rad would traditionally do the job. You need to perform some heat loss calculations, work out what the space you are trying to heat requires in the way of heat (Kw) and work from there.
The room itself is 8.407m x 2.066 with a 4m Bi fold door and 1.5m patio door, I have the lounge and kitchen leading off this, the only part of the ground floor that's not open plan is the hall where the heating thermostat is and this can take several hours to heat up.
So you need to take the whole open area, if that's generally how the space is used as a single space and work that through the heat loss calculator, it will need, length, width and height and other information. Then whatever the heat loss is calculated at, add 10-15% and that should give you the space's heat requirements.
That figure is then applied to the heat emitters. To minimise the space's warm up times, use convecting radiators (if UFH isn't an option).
That figure is then applied to the heat emitters. To minimise the space's warm up times, use convecting radiators (if UFH isn't an option).
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